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Let John Douche (Dylan McDermott) be your rhythm vacation when you enter the Douche School of Dance.
- August 08, 2010
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Dylan McDermottCreator, Writer & Star
Alex FernieWriter
Antonio ScarlataCinematographer
Shauna O'TooleMakeup
Funny Or DieExecutive Producer
Starring Dylan McDermott
Created by Dylan McDermott
Written by Dylan McDermott and Alex Fernie
Directed by Lauren Palmigiano
Edited by David Patton
Featuring: Myra McWethy and David Hunt
Also: Abby Albright, Robin Weitz, Dana Buning, Veronica Scheyving, Lucia Trozzi, Hali Hudson, Barbara Stuart, Janice Glaab, Fiona Chavers and Shasi Wells
Director of Photography: Antonio Scarlata
Gaffer: Richard Kim
G/E: Brigitte Bartholdi
Production Design: Katie Byron
Wardrobe: Leslie Schilling
Makeup/Hair: Shauna O'Toole
Makeup/Hair: Carla Farra
Sound: BoTown Sound
PA: Samantha Gross
Production Coordinator: Lindsey Robinson
Production Coordinator: Michelle Fox
Special Thanks: Bryna Rifkin and Raj Raghavan
August 08, 2010
Male Speaker 1:
(whispers) Exclusive.
Male Speaker 2: Ever since man
first climbed out of the
primordial muck
there has been that.
I am John Douché, and this--
Dylan McDermott: [accented] is the Douché,
School of Dance.
[music plays]
Dylan McDermott: Anyone can dance, anyone,
except for the laziest people.
Dylan McDermott: You see, our bodies sports
a throb with energies.
Dylan McDermott: We must free them.
Now, I know many of you are caught
Dylan McDermott: in loveless marriages,
and rhythmless lives.
Dylan McDermott: Let me, John Douché,
be your rhythm.
Dylan McDermott: Let me, John Douché,
be your fantasy.
Dylan McDermott: Let me, John Douché,
be your release.
[he exhales]
[takes in a breath]
[and exhales again]
[and exhales again]
[and exhales again]
Dylan McDermott: (Voiceover) I am more than
just a dance teacher.
Dylan McDermott: I am [speaks foreign language]
therapist, confidant.
Dylan McDermott: Perhaps this is because
of my Argentinian background.
Dylan McDermott: Now, I spent two weeks
there when I was 14.
Dylan McDermott: You see this?
It's open.
Dylan McDermott: That's what I
want to teach you.
Dylan McDermott: So go ahead.
Ask me a question.
Dylan McDermott: Ask me anything.
Myra McWethy: Who are
your heroes?
Dylan McDermott: One baby.
Wilt Chamberlain. Jorge Cruise.
Dylan McDermott: All the
ass monsters.
Veronica Scheyving: Where did you
study dance?
Dylan McDermott: You don't study dance,
pussycat. You live it.
Dylan McDermott: But to answer your
question Omaha City College.
Dylan McDermott: My dream is to be a judge on
So You Think You Can Dance,
Dylan McDermott: Dancing with the Stars, [inaudible],
Dylan McDermott: whatever bullshit
show is on.
Dylan McDermott: I think I could take
it to another level.
Dylan McDermott: Bottom 3. Next.
Dylan McDermott: I need need soul.
Class: I need soul.
Dylan McDermott: I need love.
Class: I need love.
Dylan McDermott: I love John Douché.
Class: I love John Douché.
Dylan McDermott: I bang Douché.
[Spanish music plays]
David Hunt: What the fuck?
Dylan McDermott: This class is for
women only.
David Hunt: Get your hands
off my wife.
Myra McWethy: Oh Eugene relax,
we're just dancing here.
David Hunt: Come on Samantha.
We're leaving.
Myra McWethy: What?
David Hunt: Stay away from
my wife, Douche.
Dylan McDermott: It's pronounced
Dylan McDermott: (Voiceover) Life is
like a box of crayons.
Dylan McDermott: My job is to bring colors
out of other people.
Dylan McDermott: That mission is why I started
the John Douché School of Dance.
Dylan McDermott: And, well...
Dylan McDermott: I enjoy having
Dylan McDermott: with middle
aged women.


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Colorful, crunchy leaves underfoot and crisp, juicy apples… The signs of autumn are all around us. There's a cool crispness to the air – and an aroma we've missed during the summer months… wood burning in the fireplace.
The leaves on trees have turned from green to vibrant colors of red, yellow, and orange. With just the slightest breeze, they float softly to the ground. You'll notice moms with young children gathering some for decorations or searching for the perfect leaf for a school craft project.
We're into the second month of fall and with it comes the anticipation of the festive months ahead. But, there'll be plenty of time to enjoy the busy holiday season, so I hope you'll relax and enjoy this special time we have now. It's good to savor each season as it changes.
I love autumn and all the memories it brings to mind. When I was a kid, raking up huge piles of leaves and then jumping into the middle of them made outdoor chores fun.
My sister, Jeanne, was always trying to find new places to hide so she could jump out and say, "BOO!" and scare me. Well, as you can imagine, a big pile of leaves was a perfect hiding place for her to scrunch down in and pop out just at the right moment with a big "BOO!"
Without fail, even if I kinda knew she might be in there, she was successful in scaring the daylights out of me, and I'd jump as I let out a big scream. After I caught my breath, I'd say, "Jeanne! Don't DO that!" Then we'd fall down laughing as we rolled around and played in the leaves. What fun we had!
Autumn is also a wonderful time for early evening walks. The brilliant sunsets seem to be a reflection of the gorgeous fall colors. I hope you'll take some time to make wonderful memories with your family and friends as you savor this colorful season.
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STOURBRIDGE manager Gary Hackett says his players are looking forward to the fresh challenge of the Northern Premier League.
The Glassboys' boss is confident his players can improve on last season and avoid the play-off agony that ended their previous campaign in the Southern League.
"Moving north is a fresh challenge for everyone at the club and it's one that we are all looking forward to," said Hackett.
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No. 7 Tennessee tops No. 20 DePaul
Johnson scores 16 points to help the Lady Vols to the victory
NEW YORK -- Glory Johnson scored 16 points and Cierra Burdick added 15 to help No. 7 Tennessee beat No. 20 DePaul 84-61 on Sunday in the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden.
Shekinna Stricklen added 12 points while Alicia Manning had 12 points and 12 rebounds for the Lady Vols (5-2), who saw their 12-point halftime lead cut to 41-37 before using an 15-4 run to take control. Stricklen had six points during the burst.
Her layup made it 56-43 with 11:19 left and DePaul (8-2) couldn't get within single digits the rest of the way.
Tennessee coach Pat Summitt was honored during No. 1 Baylor's 73-59 victory over St. John's with the Maggie Dixon Courage award. Summitt announced in August that she had been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. Both the Lady Bears and Red Storm came out of their timeouts to applaud the winningest coach in college basketball.
|Sunday's Top-25 Results
|No. 1 Baylor 73, St. John's 59
|No. 5 Maryland 78, George Mason 50
|No. 6 Duke 93, S.C. Upstate 35
|No. 10 Kentucky 101, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 43
|Central Michigan 75, No. 14 Purdue 62
|No. 17 Penn State 76, Maryland-East Shore 51
|No. 18 North Carolina 93, East Tennessee St. 77
|No. 19 Georgetown 59, George Washington 50
|No. 22 Delaware 70, Wake Forest 57
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Jasmine Penny scored 16 points and Keisha Hampton added 14 for DePaul.
It was the second time Tennessee played in the Classic named for the former Army women's coach. The Lady Vols beat Rutgers two years ago. The Scarlet Knights had played in all four of the previous Garden events. Army hosted Ohio State at West Point the first year.
The 28-year-old Dixon died April 6, 2006, of arrhythmia, probably caused by an enlarged heart. Her death came three weeks after she finished her first season as Army coach. She won the admiration of the academy and all of college basketball for leading Army to its first NCAA berth, where the Cadets lost in the first round to Summitt's Lady Vols.
While this was DePaul's first appearance in the Classic, the school has played in the Maggie Dixon Surf'N Slam Classic in San Diego. The Blue Demons have also hosted a tournament in honor of the coach the past few seasons. She got her start as an assistant coach at DePaul under Doug Bruno before she went to Army.
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It will be the Blue Demons' fourth game in seven days. The roster has been depleted by injuries and DePaul had nine players available against the Lady Vols.
Deanna Ortiz was sidelined with a right ankle sprain suffered in Friday's win over SIU-Edwardsville. Taylor Pikes is still recovering from an ACL injury last season. Freshman Shenise Johnson has an injured left foot and classmate Alexa Gallagher hasn't played this season because of knee issues.
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The assassin is here! Er......... my sekrit santa gift!
The box in question!
Sekrit Santa 1 of ????
Appears to be a game?
A quick look at the back seems like a very very addicting game! uh oh!
Hmmm I have never heard of this. A quick wikipedia yields http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c Sounds cool and geeky!
Thank you sekrit santa! Ill try to reverse stalk when I have more time.
Teddy wrote:
Teddy's Christmas
After hours of attempted cyber stalking, my notes consisted of:
Neurologist (dead?)
Haribo bears (green)
shaving stuff? Beard stuff?
hates co-workers
no booze
honey, not sugar
I initially tried to stall for time, but then thought "No, I can create a narrative out of this."
Director's commentary:
-Google for your name and city. Apparently you're dead, but you were a very successful neurologist.
-I sent the mustache wax first since I was concerned you'd shave at the end of November.
-I honestly don't know if those suckers fall into the "tasty" or "horribad" category. I've heard rumors it's the latter. You'll have to let us know.
-The coded message was supposed to be a haiku but I apparently screwed it up My notes say it was supposed to be "messages" on page 169 but I apparently sent you a different page number. Whoops.
Hope you enjoyed your trollmas.
dak wrote:
Teddy wrote:
Teddy's Christmas
After hours of attempted cyber stalking, my notes consisted of:
Neurologist (dead?)
Haribo bears (green)
shaving stuff? Beard stuff?
hates co-workers
no booze
honey, not sugar
I initially tried to stall for time, but then thought "No, I can create a narrative out of this."
Director's commentary:
-Google for your name and city. Apparently you're dead, but you were a very successful neurologist.
-I sent the mustache wax first since I was concerned you'd shave at the end of November.
-I honestly don't know if those suckers fall into the "tasty" or "horribad" category. I've heard rumors it's the latter. You'll have to let us know.
-The coded message was supposed to be a haiku but I apparently screwed it up My notes say it was supposed to be "messages" on page 169 but I apparently sent you a different page number. Whoops.
Hope you enjoyed your trollmas.
You made a grumpy old man very happy this year. I've eaten a ton of the gummie bears and washed them down with scotch like any good spy would do. I have trimmed my beard, but I keep it full all year around so no worries about shaving. I plan to annoy the piss out of my coworkers with the annoy-o-tron and there will be possible para king with the lollipops.
Thanks dak!
Pictures of epic mustache will be available once I have regrown it.
I got a box! whoooooo. pictures later when I open it tomorrow (passing through the house right now, no time to stop. off to see more family.) piktars later, promise.
Woohoo! Part two has arrived!!
Look what was in my mailbox today!
I can haz paper? More hide and seek...
There it is, thar be goodies inside!!
YUMMY!! Another variety, two actually, more bacon and chocolate! Just in time too, only one piece of the Marini's Dark Chocolate Covered Bacon left. I guess I better slow down and see if number three ties them all together.
Thanks Santa!! I know who you are but you're just another Sekrit Santa to the rest of us!
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With a note! I never had Santa pegged for a kittens and fabulous kind of guy, but I'm sure the North Pole is awful humdrum - I'm sure the splash of colour is a nice change.
In addition to the note, stuff! I had vouchsafed to Santa that I was a member in good standing of the glorious PC gaming master race -
Santa must've checked my credentials and found them solid. This may or may not be installing simultaneously with this post's composition.
But wait - there's more! Brain-go-fast-beans, from far off North Cackalacky!
As instructed, I gave them a whirl - it was delicious. I'm not so far along into coffee snobbery so as to say things like 'notes of fruit' or some such, but it was bloody good coffee.
Lastly, tasty condimentery, linked to Santa's identity -
This looks really interesting - it's got tomatoes and sweet potatoes before peppers on the ingredient listing, as well as honey, apple cider, wine, molasses, and brown sugar in there as well. Can't wait to try it.
Thank you, Santa! Everything's awesome!
So. The bottle o' sauce says Cackalacky, and is made in Chapel Hill. The note refers me to the bottle and the thread. So....
zero cool, j'accuse!
Thanks again to all the Sekrit Santa elven team for a great time, and thanks to everyone who plays along. This is one of the best silly fun internet thingies going.
Happy merry!
Very cool stuff so far.
You got me! Hope you enjoy your stuff. The sauce is pretty tasty, and quite unique in the sweet potato aspect.
OMG big box!
Oh yeah, mame action with some Galaga coming up!
Wifelet was very impressed with the calendar
Heard presents, and locked his brother outside lol
It was a fighton to get the R2D2
Loving the Bacon
T-t-tasty bacon
I submit Comp Guru to the guillotine. Been listening to R2D2 sounds for an hour lol! Thanks heaps comp guru.
The package actually arrived last Thursday, but it took me a while to get pictures. The cats were AWOL for the unboxing, which turned out to be unfortunate since there was actually something in the box for them. The one time they didn't have their noses in every box we touch and they missed out. They will never live this down.
Thanks Shiori!
I spoiler tagged the close up shots of the individual items:
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I think I will toss this in the First Aid kit in the jeep.
There are things in this book I made when I was a kid. Looks like fun to play around with some of this again.
My wife asked me if the ball was for me or the cats. Maybe me and the cats...
The Survival Kit has one interesting item: an Energy Nugget. I'm glad there was a picture of it on the back of the tin since I was at a loss to figure it out without opening it up.
Aeryn did show up to test drive the Zig-n-Zag Ball. She was a little dubious about it, but I suspect that her brother will be all over it.
The loot my wife, impish, ended up with:
2 Gifts!
More Awesome! Thumbs up!
Note, with no hints
She says thank you to whoever whoever her Santa is. He/She really hit it out of the park, she loves the loot.
"first time" is a hint...
Is that a FFXIII tattoo?
dak wrote:
Is that a FFXIII tattoo?
I was going to ask too. I knew I recognized it but couldn't place it. Now that you say it, I'm 99% sure that's what the tattoos looked like in XIII.
yakumo wrote:
I submit Comp Guru to the guillotine. Been listening to R2D2 sounds for an hour lol! Thanks heaps comp guru.
Most excellent! I stand accused and guilty as charged sir! I'm glad the whole family enjoyed their presents. And to be fair, the bacon makes noise too .
I chuckled muchly at the one son locking the other outside.
Merry Happy!
Alas, the holiday scheduling madness has hit full force, but it did finally register that the thing in the front hallway I was tripping over wasn't a pair of shoes...
Looks promising! A cryptic message from Santa suggested that the contents could be edible, so we skipped the usual canine inspection (lax security protocols, I know).
And the contents are...
ZOMG, definitely edible! Thank you Santa!!!!
papadage wrote:
So, having done the find-a-word, spending a bit of time reverse stalking, and a little bit of deduction, I say my Santa in Paul M.
Hey, I was just reading through the thread for the first time (I'm such a procrastinator), and I noticed that there are little lines at the end of the letter your Santa sent you. I'm thinking that might be a clue as to the username's length, maybe? Looks like it's only 1 word.
For my own matter, I has shipping notice!
Last week I got another message and tracking number from Migrant Programmer letting me know that he still had another surprise. Low and behold, there was a box from the far off land of Canadia waiting for me when I got in from work. Let's dig in!
The limericks continue!
My wife has already called dibs on these.
I'll be trying a square from the brew bar for dessert tonight.
I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, but I'm intrigued. I'm thinking I'll be trying this on top of an egg tomorrow.
Where's the drooling smiley when you need it?
Mrs. necklessone: I'm not even going to get to try these, am I?
Me: You get a sip. Maybe. If you're good.
This is an amazing box of Canadian (and specifically Nova Scotian) goodness. You rock, Migrant Programmer. Just flat out rock.
lyric911 wrote:
dak wrote:
Is that a FFXIII tattoo?
I was going to ask too. I knew I recognized it but couldn't place it. Now that you say it, I'm 99% sure that's what the tattoos looked like in XIII.
It sure is. Its the pulse L'cie tattoo. She's pretty obsessed with XIII and Final Fantasy in general. She has other tattoos but this is her first geeky/gaming tattoo.
Woohoo, glad the "juice" got through customs alright
You're mighty welcome!
I received a burger of the month calendar. (Didn't realize it was a Sekrit Santa gift until my Santa messaged me) Two weeks later, I got another one!
There's absolutely no reverse stalking info in the package.
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OMG OMG OMG...Santa delivered to my door! Literally, my apartment door!
Ars Sekrit Santa gift check out the zombie wrapping paper! by lordjosh, on Flickr
OMG...cookies...cookies with meat...OMG MINCEMEAT COOKIES! by lordjosh, on Flickr
Sooooo gooooood by lordjosh, on Flickr
Santa, you win... by lordjosh, on Flickr
But wait...there's more... by lordjosh, on Flickr
OMG it's eggnog! Damned good eggnog! by lordjosh, on Flickr
OMG OMG OMG...so friggin awesome; and the only hint as to who sent it is a receipt:
And someone left a receipt in the packaging... by lordjosh, on Flickr
Based on this and my outside knowledge: I choose you, katespace or THBMan! Based on the handwriting on the gift, I'm gonna go ahead and say it's katespace! OMG, delicious!
Stupid receipt. WHY U PUT RECEIPT IN BAG, DANIELLE R?!?
Hope you enjoyed them - I'm definitely making those again!
OMG sooooo goood...Definitely a huge improvement to a pretty crappy Monday! I am so happy right now!
Oh. My. Gosh.
My poor Santa apparently stalked me to the farthest reaches of TMI in the VR.. I guess I should be more mindful of the naughty list when posting! So I was a little nervous opening my gift
Yipes..did someone murder the breath-monkies
Oh heavens, it's a towel.. eww.
And soap that dispenses from an IV bag. *shudder*
Santa, I'm torn between utter horror and embarrassed hilarity. Well done indeed.
edit : bah. can't figure out how to get the dropbox links to work. some magic.. ah-ha! had a sneaky space in the img tags. and also you need to use the dl links. got it.
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Oh, boy!! Part three! WOOT! (pun intended )
Awesome t-shirt inside!
Wow! So many amazing gifts!! I'm in chocolate and bacon nirvana and have a new shirt to wear with pride!
Thanks Sekrit Santa, or shall I say...
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sweetpepper: You got spaces in your img tags. But now the pictures are gone too.
Santa came! My package has arrived!
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Touche Santa, touche! I am battling the evil cigs. That is some quality stalking!
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This looks very promising!
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Alright, I had to open and give this a whiff and a quick taste. This salsa has some serious heat for a medium. I am saving this bad boy for the Super Bowl game! Cannot wait to nom!
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Tea! Glorious Tea! This is a blend and it smells ridiculously good!
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I can't recall if I ever mentioned my love for Maharaja Chai but my Santa hit the nail on the head! It is an amazing tea. The Carmel Almond blended in makes this tea smell amazing. I immediately had to make a cup.
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So damn good!
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Candy Coal! Cinnamon Flavored! Perfect after the tea (the tea has cinnamon flavor as well)
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edit: reverse stalk success!
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JonBob: non-Euclidean geometry, WTF!?!
Faramir wrote:
JonBob: non-Euclidean geometry, WTF!?!
Specifically, a projective plane of order five.
Part 2 of my gift was waiting on my desk when I arrived at work this morning:
Inside was another neatly wrapped gift in the same style as the other gifts, but this time containing:
I feel very demotivated already! :-) This is definitely going to get passed around the office for all the appropriate occasions.
Thanks again, UrbanSlayer!
Huh. Apparently my guerrilla Santa wasn't done with me. In addition to the beer that showed up last week, I found a huge box full of presents sitting on my new desk* when I came in this morning. I haven't opened any of the individual packages yet since I'm at work, but I'll open them up and post pictures when I get home.
Intrigued Sam is intrigued...
* - I've been working here just a bit over a month, and for a while I was sitting at a temporary desk normally reserved for contractors. My department recently moved to a new floor, and I got my permanent desk. So my Santa knew that we moved floors--which makes sense if it's one of the three Arsians who also works here (I'm pretty sure it's not one of them--unless he's lying to me). INTRIGUE!
I fear I make horrible, horrible Sekrit Santa gift choices.
Oh well. At least I tried.
NotContinuum wrote:
I fear I make horrible, horrible Sekrit Santa gift choices.
Oh well. At least I tried.
Edit: Adding smilie
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Wow, looking at that box of the Texan pecan pie it's really striking how the Texas emblem really resemble Communist state emblems like the Soviet Union's, Belarus', or particularly this emblem of Communist Vietnam:
For reference, the Texas emblem from the box:
I has been informed that more is coming!
Intelligence sources report that the item is suspected to come from Think Geek, although this is not confirmed.
I've been remiss in my posting...
It would appear that katespace is intent on a multi-day gift scheme...this is awesome, and way beyond what I'd ever hoped for.
On the second day of Ars-mas, my Santa gave to me...
So I'm heading out to work... by lordjosh, on Flickr
OK you've got my attention... by lordjosh, on Flickr
Hooray! Breast cancer research support swag...now I can proclaim my love of boobs and my hatred of cancer simultaneously! by lordjosh, on Flickr
HAHA! Awesome. Thanks katespace!
But then I get a message this morning...
On the third day of Ars-mas, my santa gave to me endangered species
um...not sure what to think about this, but I'm anxious to see what it is when I get to wherever these endangered species are...
Sam's Sekrit Santa Presents: Omnibus Edition
I know I already posted a few pictures, but I did The Grand Unwrapping(TM) last night and so I'm going to post those pictures here, as well as re-post some stuff from earlier.
Suffice it to say, my Sekrit Santa this year went above and beyond.
(all of these pictures are click-to-enbiggen-able, by the way)
Back before Thanksgiving, I got a message from my Santa that included a link to this video:
I don't have to tell you why that's awesome.
Then last week, I walk into work and find this on my desk:
It says "Check the middle fridge".
So, I went to check the middle refrigerator here at the office. Inside, I find this:
It's a growler of Wee Mac, an excellent scotch brown from Sun King, an equally-excellent local brewery!
So...at this point I know that my Santa is probably one of the three other Arsians who works not only for my (new) employer, but in the very same building as me. Except one of them swears he got someone else for his Santee. Except that he could be lying. I say "probably" because it's also possible that my Santa doesn't work in my building--and in fact, may not even be local--but has recruited an inside agent to deploy tasty beer.
Honestly, I also thought this was my Sekrit Santa gift and was overjoyed at it. I was waiting for a nice, quiet evening to enjoy some of its malty goodness, when...
Yesterday morning I get another message from my Sekrit Santa, with a link to yet another video:
Again, I don't need to tell you why it's awesome.
I make my way into the office, to see a gigantic box on my new desk (we just moved floors over the weekend). I open it up, but it's full of smaller, gift-wrapped boxes. I decide to refrain from opening it in the office (which made yesterday pretty fun).
I left work yesterday and had to stop by my parents' place before heading home, so I decided to open up the invidiaul parcels there. The package had sustained a little damage in the move. Poor Sekrit Santa label.
I open it up, and extract a veritable treasure trove of beautifully-wrapped goodies.
(I'm sensing a theme...)
First package, labeled "Eat", turns out to be...Unicorn Meat!
The second package, also labeled "Eat", contains a snack item that I only recently said I enjoyed in a thread about said snack item's comparison with its brand-mates.
The third item, labeled "Drink", is a sixer of Romulan Ale energy drink, of all things!
(the box had a ribbon on it, but I took it off before I thought to snap a picture)
The fourth package (also labeled "Drink") was just--oh, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. I got a little veklempt.
Coupled with the Romulan Ale above, when I saw the picture of Kirk taped to the top of the box (with the inserted captain), I got all crazy-excited. I've always--ALWAYS!--wanted glasses like the ones Kirk has in TWoK (glass with the metal ring at the bottom). Now, this is stupid. I'm a grown-up. I can order things off of the Internet and shit. But I've never done it. So here they are! Crazy awesome glasses, heavily reminiscent of Kirk's own glassware. This was the highlight of the entire package, although the rest of it was awesome too
Oh, more packages!
The fifth parcel, labeled "Be Merry" is a little package of expanding fake snow! Those of you who know about my preference in weather know that I've lamented the absence of real winter weather in Indiana the past couple of winters. This was a really cuite gift
The sixth and final parcel! Yes, that's right! Six!
This one was labeled "Be Merry (And Orange)". The "orange" reference is--I'm assuming anyway--a reference to the "corporate culture" that I and my Santa share, known as "Orange" (which sounds stupid, but is actually kind of awesome).
This turned out to be an "Infectious Disease Stress Ball"
And it does this when you squeeze it
Reverse-stalking didn't take much, I'll be honest...but I was still only able to narrow down my possible Santas to Rold Gold or masterminded (unless lyric911 was lying to me about getting someone else in the drawing )
Whichever one of you it was, thank you so much! You were in a tough spot, because you knew I wouldn't have a hard time figuring out who you were. But you leveraged the scary amount you know about me, and made up for the lack of mystery in quantity, quality and hyper-accuracy as to my hobbies and interests
Happy Holidays!
The Sam wrote:
Reverse-stalking didn't take much, I'll be honest...but I was still only able to narrow down my possible Santas to Rold Gold or masterminded (unless lyric911 was lying to me about getting someone else in the drawing )
Whichever one of you it was, thank you so much! You were in a tough spot, because you knew I wouldn't have a hard time figuring out who you were. But you leveraged the scary amount you know about me, and made up for the lack of mystery in quantity, quality and hyper-accuracy as to my hobbies and interests
Happy Holidays!
Well, considering that Rold Gold and masterminded didn't even sign up for SS, I'm guessing you can take those two off the list of possible Santas.


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The Penguins know this migraine. So do the Rangers. The Bruins moved one giant step closer to a Stanley Cup championship Monday night on Causeway Street, once more blending their painful, punishing cocktail of stifling defense and air-tight Tuukka Rask goaltending (28 saves) for a 2-0 win over the Blackhawks.
What a pain it must be to play the Bruins right now. They allowed the Penguins only two goals in four games in the Eastern Conference finals. They shut down everything and everyone Pittsburgh had to offer. Sidney Crosby disappeared. Evgeni Malkin never came out of the fog. Ditto for Kris Letang and everyone else in the Penguins lineup.
And now it's happening to the Blackhawks. Different laundry, same bad wash. The Western Conference champs worked into triple OT to squeeze out a 4-3 victory in Game 1, and now they've lost two in a row, 2-1 and 2-0, putting only one shot behind Rask despite squeezing off 120 shots in 133:48 worth of meat-grinding hockey.
"Yeah, they had shots, but most of them were from the outside,'' said Rask, who inched ever closer to clinching the Conn Smythe Trophy as the postseason MVP. "And we took away all the rebound opportunities.''
Therein is pretty much Boston's two steps to a championship this postseason. They keep shooters to the outside, and punish one and all who attempt, or even hope, to bring pucks to the net. It breaks the spirit, backs, and will and dreams of their opponents.
The Bruins won the Cup two years ago with the same formula, but they didn't execute nearly as proficiently. They needed to clinch three of those series (Montreal, Tampa Bay, and Vancouver) with Game 7 wins. This time around, after another No. 7 to edge by Toronto in Round 1, they've rubbed out the Rangers in five and the Penguins in four. Monday night it felt like they rubbed out the Blackhawks in three.
Where is the pushback? We asked the same after Games 1 and 2 in Pittsburgh, but it didn't come. It never came. Not in Game 3. Not in Game 4. Neither Pittsburgh's big stars nor its role players ever turned it into a series.
Now we're asking the same after three games of the Cup Final. Where is Jonathan Toews? No points. Where is Patrick Kane? A lone assist. Where are defensemen Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook? Goose eggs for both. There is no pushback. It's as though the entire Chicago squad enrolled in Anger Management 101 before the Final and aced the course with flying colors — varying shades of black and gold.
"I think it's the energy in the game, the effort,'' said Boston coach Claude Julien, who believes this is the best his club has played in the postseason. "You see our guys, like I said, backchecking, [creating] layers, so when somebody makes a mistake, you have somebody covering up. We're blocking a lot of shots [17 Monday night, 75 for the series]. The commitment is totally there.''
It is also totally in Chicago's faces, and its heads, its hands. The Bruins are just too heavy. The Blackhawks may be faster and some of their forwards more skilled. They opened the season without a regulation loss in their first 24 games (21-0-3) and they were not shutout in the regular season. But that doesn't matter now. The Bruins gathered up the stat sheets from those games, crumpled them up, and rendered them as inconsequential as Toews, Kane, et al.
"I think when you get to this stage, players start feeling it,'' said Julien, noting it's nearly impossible for a club to summon such thoroughness during the regular season. "They go above and beyond. That's what you're seeing from our team right now.''
Game 3 was a carryover from Game 2, in which the Bruins rallied to win in OT after opening with perhaps their worst period of the season (the Blackhawks fired 30 shots, the Bruins only five). In Game 2, the Bruins began to skate and hit in the second period, did more of it in the third, even more in the OT. As they grew bigger, the Blackhawks grew smaller. The Blackhawks had a decent first period Monday, then quickly began to shrink again once Danny Paille, left wing on the Misfit Toys Line, connected for the 1-0 lead with 2:13 gone in the second.
From that point on, over a time of 37:47, the Blackhawks mustered 18 shots on Rask, only eight more than they managed in the opening 22:13. They never scored on the power play (now 0 for 11 in the series) and they were hammered brutally at the faceoff dot, where the Bruins won a nearly inhumane 71 percent of the drops.
Patrice "The Thief" Bergeron put on a puck-drop clinic, winning 24 of 28 draws (86 percent). On the other side, late-season pickup Michal Handzus went 0 for 10 and Dave Bolland 1 for 8. In a series this tight and this heavy, puck possession is key. After 71 percent of the drops, the Blackhawks were chasing. And they kept chasing.
The poor power play and the poorer faceoff record, noted Chicago coach Joel Quenneville, were key elements of the loss.
"It's a tight game and scoring is going to be challenging,'' said Quenneville, asked if the grind is tougher against Boston than it was against Los Angeles in the conference final. "But we've got to be ready to play that kind of game. Let's look to get that first goal and try to sustain it. It's not like we want to go outrace [the Bruins], and exchange high-scoring chances off the rush. That's what they want to do. We have to be ready. We [have to] play a patient game, capitalize, get opportunities, and hopefully we get the power play going.''
It has to come from somewhere or it's over for the Blackhawks. Maybe the power play comes around. Maybe Rask falls down six times the way he did once against the Rangers. Maybe the Blackhawks win faceoffs, reboot their temerity to get to the net. But that's a tall order now for a team growing shorter by the shift.Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeKPD.


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Relationship Unit Opener
Lesson 1 of 6
Objective: SWBAT speak, read, and write about grade level topics.
Big Idea: Good readers connect books to over-arching themes. It's important to engage students in all areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Summary and Context
The Common Core State Standards ask students to read and comprehend literature at grade level. They also ask to give students the opportunity to talk with diverse partners. Our school is mostly composed of English Language Learners and for that reason we seek to give our students as many opportunities for academic conversations as possible.
Additionally, we seek for our students to get to know one one another, and giving them interactive experiences helps to build community with each other.
Every six weeks we have events that we call "Unit Openers." Unit Openers are designed to introduce the new theme we will be reading about in our anthologies, and, for this lesson, we gather all three classrooms together. After the opener, we dive into the theme separately. Every theme is composed of six stories that all second graders read in their respective classroom. The teachers design the literacy tasks the students will experience during the Unit Opener. The tasks are designed to convey a message about the specific theme.
Our first theme for this unit is "Relationships." In thinking about relationships, we thought of topics that could contribute to the students' conceptual understanding of relationships. We created five different stations for the unit opener (see the next section for details about each station). These stations work for our students, but I invite you to create stations that would benefit your students and their needs.
All the students will be divided into smaller groups. These groups will be rotated every 10 minutes. The groups are made up of students from all three classrooms.
We hold the Unit Opener in the multi-purpose room to have plenty of space to move around and to give the groups space to carry out their task.
I facilitate the Unit Opener, and I start with all the students as a whole group. Our multi-purpose room is also our auditorium. We have our classes sit on the floor in front of the stage. They will be engaged in a Think-Pair-Share activity to active their prior knowledge of relationships. While I facilitate the opening, the other teachers are present and helping with management and the stations. We recruit our teaching assistants to help out too.
Please note: It is important to be in communication with the principal and the custodian to have the necessary space ready for the Unit Opener. The teachers worked to prepare the materials and to set up the materials the day before. This allows for the Unit Opener to flow smoothly. While it may seem like much work, the students benefit much from getting together with their peers from other classrooms and from having a different space to explore their learning. It keeps the learning fresh.
Once the students have gone through all the stations, we gather them again in a whole group and discuss what they have learned about relationships. Then, students are dismissed and they continue to build their knowledge of relationships through the six stories they read (one a week) and through the other activities each teacher creates respectively in their classroom.
Students' pencil boxes, poster paper, chart paper for Circle Map, and books on relationships. I have included a list of suggested books in the next section's resources.
Lesson Opening:
- Students are seated in one large group, in front of our stage, to begin our unit opener. I ask the students to turn to a partner from a different classroom. Some of them will need to move to be able to this. The other teachers help to partner up the students quickly. I ask them to sit knee-to-knee and eye-to-eye. I ask them to choose Partner A and Partner B. I let them know they will be engaged in a Think-Pair-Share. I ask Partner A to ask first: "What do you know about Relationships?" After Partner A shares, then it's Partner A's turn to ask. This takes about 1-2 minutes, no more.
- Then, students share aloud while I transcribe their responses on a Circle Map drawn on a chart. I have the chart resting on an easel.
- Afterwards, students are given a poster, divided into groups, and given instructions on how they will rotate every 10 minutes around five stations. Each station is facilitated by an adult with a specific task. At each station, each student will fill in one section of the poster. By the end of their rotation, they are to have their posters completed.
- To make the groups, I ask the other teachers how many students present in their class. I take the total and divide into the number of stations (5 in this case) we have. Each group needs to have students from each class and the teachers work with me to make sure this happens.
Resources (1)
Resources (1)
Interactive Group Work
Now students work in their stations and rotate every 10 minutes to give them the opportunity to experience all stations. During these stations, the students continue to have collaborative conversations. In this case, their conversations take place in smaller groups.
The topics we created for the stations are: Library Station, All About Me, My Family, My Friends, and What I Like. I am attaching a document that gives more details on all the stations: Station Information.
The tasks work to meet the speaking and listening skills of our students. They benefit much from these conversations. I invite you to create tasks that address the needs of your students.


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Drew Barrymore has given birth to her second child, she announced Tuesday.
�Happy to announce that today we are the proud parents of our second daughter, Frankie Barrymore Kopelman,� Barrymore and husband Will Kopelman told People.com. �Olive has a new little sister, and everyone is healthy and happy!�
They didn�t say exactly when or where Frankie was born, but it must�ve been after Sunday brunch, when Barrymore posted photos of her eating a number of dishes, including dim sum.
That�s the kind of information only a real professional can give you.
Barrymore and Kopelman got married in June 2012 in a small ceremony at Barrymore�s Montecito home. Guests included Cameron Diaz, Jimmy Fallon and Reese Witherspoon.
�Watching my husband give his speech to everyone was amazing. I was so in awe of his eloquence and articulation. I was super turned on, excited, proud. I had so many really wonderful emotions!� Barrymore later told E! News. �I was just really super-present feeling very euphoric. My heart was outside my body and my skin was tingling, and the whole thing was just so special and perfect.�
Their first child, Olive, was born in September 2012. Barrymore announced her second pregnancy in November 2013.


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Monday, November 26, 2012
On the cultivation of virtue.
I promise that, in the end, this post will be about human resources and libraries.
In conservative social scientist Charles Murray's recent book, ComingApart: the State of White America, 1960-2010, he makes the familiar argument that self-governing free citizens cannot maintain a workable society in the absence of strong personal virtues. (I am only about halfway through, so I can't say if he takes the argument in any new directions.) The four virtues he lifts up as being of paramount civic importance are industriousness, honesty, marriage and religiosity.
Indulge me in setting aside the also-familiar counter-arguments about marriage and religiosity; the observation I want to make here is how, historically, social power in America deliberately did its best to keep whole classes of people from benefiting from all four of these virtues. The industriousness of ethnic minorities and women was attacked as "taking away" jobs from white men. Sexual minorities could not live honestly, have fruitful marriages or participate in the shared life of religious communities. These examples are the obvious ones that cannot be refuted. Of course, there are others that are more or less arguable in terms of scope and impact, along with the question of when (or if) the was of "historically" gave way to the is of the present.
The point of my observation is that citizenship does not just require virtue in order to succeed: virtue requires citizenship in order to develop. There is little incentive to work for a theoretically universal common good that deliberately or even accidentally excludes you in practice.
In my first marriage, I married into poverty. To say it was an eye-opener would be an understatement. I watched people that I loved making rational choices that were also bad choices. I watched their friends and acquaintances cycle through their own boom-and-bust economies on a micro scale. I learned the complete category error of the perennial question asked by people who aren't poor themselves, "Is poverty the result of moral failure or structural oppression?" In my experience, both direct and through extensive reading, what I've seen is that poverty shapes people. It's like psychological bonsai. Even with more resources, even in different environments, the history of constraint leaves its marks.
In human resources today, one of the more common topics of discussion is how to increase employee engagement. The basic idea is that a workforce that is both emotionally invested and competent will provide a competitive advantage over a workforce that is merely competent.
These discussions almost always make me want to laugh and cry at the same time, because highly-trained, committed professionals return again and again to a methodology of "what WE might do to make THEM feel invested in US." It's HR as a brand-loyalty marketing program, really.
There are no shortcuts. There are no clever techniques. The way to increase employee engagement is to engage with one's employees. The way to increase emotional investment is to provide a return on that investment. People won't act like they have a stake in an organization's performance if they, in fact, don't. People who haven't had a stake before will continue to act like they don't, for quite some time.
In libraries today, especially academic libraries, one of the more common topics of discussion is how librarians can better respond to changing technological and economic realities. (Or, less charitably: how librarians can actually start responding, period.) One particularly desperate presenting issue is the impossible pricing models for serials, especially as they are bundled into online databases.
Recently, Jenica Rogerswalked SUNY-Potsdam away from the American Chemical Society. Responses were widely and overwhelmingly positive, though the Library Loon observed that somefolks were gravely discomfited. The BeerBrarian argued that eventhe applause contained disappointing elements, since Ms. Rogers' actions can reasonably be described as just doing her job as a library director. In larger libraries, some of those responsibilities fall on librarians further down the org chart.
A while back, I talked about whyI didn't want to be a library director anymore. The reasons boiled down to feeling powerless. I foresaw that it wouldn't be long before I had to make a similar decision to Ms. Rogers, and I assumed I would then get fired, as simple as that. I never would have predicted that faculty and university administrators could have been brought on board. Ms. Rogers is an outstanding library director, but I am thinking that the faculty and administration at SUNY Potsdam must be something special too.
I believe Library Loon when the bird says (in the post linked to above) that angry faculty get librarians fired. I think the causality there is off, though. I would say that "mediocre senior library administrators get librarians fired." Angry faculty is going to happen, especially in cases where publisher greed isn't as blindingly obvious, and it's just a question of too many pieces of the pie being a little bit too large. Communication and education can mitigate that anger. But effective communication by collection development and liaison librarians can't happen without the full support of the management layers above them. The librarians need time, personal encouragement and institutional cover to lay that groundwork.
I have had trouble over the years being tactful about librarian fears of irrelevancy and the embrace of information literacy as the primary response to a shifting information environment. Fundamentally, the prioritizing of teaching concepts over tools represented to me a surrender of any attempt to own (figuratively or even literally) thetools of library research. The profession collectively threw up its hands and said, "It's too hard!"
Well, librarianshiphas always been hard. That's what keeps it from being a pointless endeavor. If it were simple, we wouldn't need librarians as a specialized class of professional--and we clearly do. Or "information professionals," if you prefer. I'm not too picky about labels.
But librarians also have frequently needed to contend with mediocre administrators as well as a challenging environment. (The Library Loon talks about this a lot.) Librarians made rational choices about what they could achieve with the resources at hand. I realize now that I can't be too harsh on fearful librarians, though. They're correct to be scared--just of their bosses leaving them to hang out to dry, not the wider world in general.
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Is there any webpage that does this ?
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Assemblyman John Ceretto, R-C-I-Lewiston, is sponsoring the bipartisan Public Assistance Integrity Act in the Assembly. The bill is designed to prevent public assistance money from being spent at casinos, liquor stores, tobacco retailers and adult entertainment facilities. Ceretto said the bill's intent is to ensure that public funds are used to help families provide the basic necessities for their children, and not spent on non-essential goods.
"The Public Assistance Integrity Act needs to be passed to establish an important safeguard against the abuse of public assistance funds. Public assistance is intended to help families pay for basic essentials while they get back on their feet," Ceretto said. "When these funds are used at casinos or strip clubs, families in need are deprived of crucial money, while taxpayers get ripped off. Prohibiting the use of these funds for non-essential purposes protects both children and taxpayers."
Public assistance benefits are typically given through electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards, which function similar to debit cards. As state law currently stands, there are no protections in place to keep people from spending this money on non-essentials and entertainment. On the federal level, the Public Assistance Protection Act requires states to enact policies that prevent misuse of public assistance money provided through federal programs. Thus, the Public Assistance Integrity Act is required to bring New York state law into compliance with federal law.
"Protecting public assistance from abuse is a reasonable policy that members on both sides of the aisle should be working toward. New York is long overdue to get on board with this common-sense legislation," Ceretto said. "It is wrong that taxpayer money intended to help needy families can be spent on liquor, tobacco and other unnecessary items. This bill ensures that our public assistance money is spent wisely and is not abused."


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As some of you might have seen: Google, YouTube and Facebook are hosting local mirrors for most of their services.
Unfortunately the ISP's DNS servers doesn't always report the local IP addresses, even if the services work on the local mirrors!
There are 2 ways in which you can force the Google, YouTube & Facebook to work on local cap:
- Forcing the hostnames to a fixed IP address with the use of the hosts file, which can be found in the %windir%\system32\drivers\etc folder.
Pros: very easy and quick to setup
Cons: doesn't support wildcards or multiple hostnames, which is why the list is so massive
* Instructions at the bottom
* NEW!!: There's a hosts file modification specific to YouTube viewers on the SAIX network too - see bottom of post
* NEW #2!!: There are also hosts file modifications for Google views on WebAfrica network - see Tinuva's post
- Running your own DNS server with the use of BIND9 and then overriding the hostnames using wildcards.
Pros: supports regular expressions (wildcards); 1 server can be used for multiple PC's; would override more Google & YouTube services (Facebook zone not added yet); this technique works on some routers too
Cons: the setup takes a couple of minutes to do and might seem like its for advanced users
* Instructions can be found on my blog: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/entry.ph...oogle-services
Modifying the hosts file can be done like follow:
- Run: notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
^^ Its really as simple as pressing Windows Key + R, typing in notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and pressing Enter
If you don't understand that, then you can open notepad, browse to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc folder and then open the file with the name hosts
- Here's the list that you'll have to add to the bottom of the hosts file:Code:# # Thanks goes to Catal, HavocXphere, Blogbytes & fragtion_ for contributing hostnames # # On SAIX: # <Google IP> = 22.214.171.124 # <YouTube IP> = 18.104.22.168 # <Facebook IP> = 18.104.22.168 / 18.104.22.168 / 18.104.22.168 # On IS: # <Google IP> = 18.104.22.168 # <YouTube IP> = 22.214.171.124 / 126.96.36.199 / 126.96.36.199 / 22.214.171.124 # <Facebook IP> = 184.108.40.206 / 126.96.36.199 / 220.127.116.11 / 220.127.116.11 # Google Searching <Google IP> www.google.co.za <Google IP> www.google.com <Google IP> google.com <Google IP> google.co.za # Gmail and chat withing Gmail <Google IP> mail.google.com <Google IP> chatenabled.mail.google.com # Google Code & Pada's Traffic Splitter Google Code address <Google IP> www.gmodules.com <Google IP> traffic-splitter.googlecode.com <YouTube IP> www.googlecode.com <YouTube IP> code.google.com # Blogspot <Google IP> www.blogspot.com <Google IP> bp0.blogger.com <Google IP> bp1.blogger.com <Google IP> bp2.blogger.com <Google IP> bp3.blogger.com <Google IP> 0.bp.blogspot.com <Google IP> 1.bp.blogspot.com <Google IP> 2.bp.blogspot.com <Google IP> 3.bp.blogspot.com <Google IP> 4.bp.blogspot.com <Google IP> image.blogspot.com <Google IP> buttons.blogger.com <Google IP> upload.blogspot.com <Google IP> googleappengine.blogspot.com <Google IP> www.blogger.com <Google IP> www.blogblog.com <Google IP> img1.blogblog.com <Google IP> img2.blogblog.com <Google IP> www1.blogblog.com <Google IP> www2.blogblog.com # Google Eath & Google Maps <Google IP> maps.google.co.za <Google IP> maps.google.com <Google IP> csi.gstatic.com <Google IP> maps.gstatic.com <Google IP> gg.google.com <YouTube IP> kh.google.com <YouTube IP> mw1.google.com <YouTube IP> mw2.google.com <YouTube IP> earth.google.com <YouTube IP> mt0.google.com <YouTube IP> mt1.google.com <YouTube IP> mt2.google.com <YouTube IP> mt3.google.com <YouTube IP> khm.google.com <YouTube IP> cbk0.google.com <YouTube IP> cbk1.google.com <YouTube IP> cbk2.google.com <YouTube IP> cbk3.google.com # Other Google Services <Google IP> news.google.com <Google IP> blitz.appspot.com <Google IP> www.google-analytics.com <Google IP> ssl.google-analytics.com <Google IP> t0.gstatic.com <Google IP> t1.gstatic.com <Google IP> t2.gstatic.com <Google IP> t3.gstatic.com <Google IP> www.gstatic.com <YouTube IP> books.google.co.za <YouTube IP> books.google.com <YouTube IP> calendar.google.com <YouTube IP> video.google.com <YouTube IP> translate.google.com <YouTube IP> docs.google.com <YouTube IP> appengine.google.com <YouTube IP> clients1.google.com <YouTube IP> clients2.google.com <YouTube IP> clients3.google.com <YouTube IP> clients4.google.com <YouTube IP> clients5.google.com <YouTube IP> id.google.com <YouTube IP> dl.google.com # YouTube <Google IP> ad-emea.doubleclick.net <Google IP> s.ytimg.com <Google IP> webcache.googleusercontent.com <YouTube IP> youtube.co.za <YouTube IP> youtube.com <YouTube IP> www.youtube.co.za <YouTube IP> www.youtube.com <YouTube IP> www.youtube-nocookie.com <YouTube IP> i1.ytimg.com <YouTube IP> i2.ytimg.com <YouTube IP> i3.ytimg.com <YouTube IP> i4.ytimg.com <YouTube IP> upload.youtube.com # Facebook <Facebook IP> www.facebook.com <Facebook IP> static.ak.fbcdn.net <Facebook IP> profile.ak.fbcdn.net <Facebook IP> upload.facebook.com
- Replace (please make use of the Replace... [CTRL + H] function) the <Google IP>, <YouTube IP> and <Facebook IP> with the correct IP address, which I've given at the top of the list.
If I've specified multiple IP addresses, using a / to separate them, please just pick one random one from the list.
Please use the IP addresses according to your local ISP: SAIX/IS !
- Save the file and exit notepad. You don't need to restart for it to take effect.
If you're having trouble with either a Google, YouTube of Facebook page, then I would appreciate it if you can give me as much information as possible:
- Overriding method that you're using
- ISP account name
- URL that's not working on local cap
- ping results to the hostname specified by the URL (for intermediate/advanced users)
- the DNS server's IP address that you're using (for intermediate/advanced users)
- Overriding method: hosts file
- ISP account name:Mweb consumer uncapped
- URL: https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1
- Ping results:Code:C:\Users\xxx>ping mail.google.com Pinging googlemail.l.google.com [184.108.40.206] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 18.104.22.168: bytes=32 time=366ms TTL=47 Reply from 184.108.40.206: bytes=32 time=365ms TTL=47 Reply from 22.214.171.124: bytes=32 time=366ms TTL=47 Reply from 220.127.116.11: bytes=32 time=369ms TTL=47 Ping statistics for 184.108.40.206: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 365ms, Maximum = 369ms, Average = 366ms
- DNS Server IP address: 188.8.131.52
A few notes when forcing the Google services to the local IP address:
- I haven't managed to get Google Talk working yet
- I found Google Earth to be quite slow
Here are the results of people trying to ping www.google.co.za without forcing it to the local IP address: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthre...w.Google.co.za
If you've found more cool Google services that are mirrored locally, please contribute
Hosts file modification specifically for YouTube viewers on SAIX network:http://pastebin.com/ra85gsiW * Thank Fragtion for this
If you're to cheap to have international bandwidth left to even view that, you can download the contents here: http://www.quickshare.co.za/files/ky...g2010.txt.html


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LOS ANGELES, Jul. 11, 2011 – There was a time when I had more appreciation for live theater. Today, if I want drama, I turn to sport.
On Sunday, the astonishing drama, pathos, suspense and stupidity shown in the FIFA Women's World Cup quarterfinal between Brazil and the United States demonstrated once again why Shakespeare's line that "the play's the thing" from Hamlet must – in today's world – be changed to "the game's the thing."
Consider these unscripted, reality moments packed into a three-hour match:
Brazilian defender Daiane, confused by an American attack in the second minute of the game, ends up scoring an own goal.
Australian referee Jacqui Melksham and her all-Australian crew handed out a red card against U.S. defender Rachel Buehler for a tackle in the goal box, then allowed the Brazilians a second penalty kick on an encroachment call against the U.S., but missed a hand-ball call vs. American Carli Lloyd and an offsides against Brazil on Marta's second goal. And those were only the most obvious gaffes.
Brazilian defender Erika, in an outright display of everything that is wrong with soccer, flopped on the ground and was carried off the field on a stretcher. Once a few yards down the sidelines, she hopped off the stretcher and ran back onto the field! In the process, she undoubtedly added enough stoppage time to the second extra-time period to allow the U.S. to tie the game.
After 66 minutes of indifferent soccer, the American team – playing with 10 – showed more tempo, grit and determination in the final 60 minutes of the game and got a once-in-a-lifetime cross from Megan Rapinoe that found Abby Wambach's head for the tying goal with less then a minute left.
No one could have predicted, or even dreamed this up. And it's why so many people are addicted to sport.
How much so? As a sports statistician, I had to go to the numbers. Just adding up the available live-attendance figures for 2010 or 2009 for the largest American leagues, consider that U.S. attendance reached 239.78 million:
73.42 million: Baseball-Major League
41.64 million: Baseball-Minor League
37.68 million: Football-NCAA Bowl Subdivision
26.94 million: Basketball-NCAA Men's Division I
21.39 million: Basketball-NBA
21.24 million: Hockey-NHL
17.47 million: Football-NFL
And that doesn't count MLS soccer (4.0 million), NASCAR, golf, tennis and smaller sports like track & field, swimming and gymnastics. Those bring the total to more than 250 million: that's nearly four times the National Arts Index's combined attendance for ballet, classical music, dance, opera and the legitimate theater in the U.S. in 2009 of 64.99 million.
And, of course, the sports attendance figures do not count the U.S. television audience in the hundreds of millions.
Looking forward to 2012, consider that the Olympic Games in London will draw in excess of 6.6 million spectators across 17 days, close to half of what London's famed theatre scene does in an entire year!
It is moments like Sunday's game and unfathomable dramas like Billy Mills's sprint to win the 1964 Olympic 10,000 meters, the Soviet "victory" over the American basketball team in the 1972 Games, or Usain Bolt's world records in the 2008 Olympic sprints and 2009 World Championships, that keep us coming back for more. It's why there were more than one million applications for tickets next year's Olympic track session featuring the men's 100-meter final.
The British poet Lord Byron knew it, all the way back in 1824: "Truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction." It's what makes sports so great.
Now, instead of waiting for Godot, I'm off to look at getting a bigger [Smart] [HD] television set.
(You can stay current with Rich's technology, sports and Olympic commentaries by following him at www.twitter.com/RichPerelman.)


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13/14 Teener Leaguers move on up behind 2-1 weekend
PUNXSUTAWNEY — Punxsy's 13- and 14-year-old VFW Teener League team had a successful weekend, going 2-1 and advancing to the next tournament, with future host Phillipsburg-Osceola already having an automatic berth.
Punxsy opened the tournament Friday with a convincing 8-2 victory over Curwensville in Curwensville.
Punxsy's Dylan Huey scored the first run out of the leadoff spot in the top of the first inning, but a two-run fourth inning put the home team ahead 2-1.
Punxsy answered right back in the fifth with the help of five walks and one hit — a single by Lucas Ambler. Trent Stouffer, Caanaan Knox, Huey and Ryan Jones started the fifth with four straight free passes, and Ambler's single, a walk by Peyton Graham and an E3 allowing Keeston Perry to reach safely helped Punxsy open up a 5-2 lead.
Punxsy added three insurance runs in the sixth with the help of singles off the bats of Tyler Geer, Huey and Jones and free passes issued to Ambler and Caleb Smith.
Graham got the starting nod for Punxsy and pitched 5.1 innings, allowing two runs on one hit and fanning 10 to earn the win.
Jones came on in relief to pitch 1.2 scoreless innings, fanning three and walking one.
After earning a 10-6 win over Clearfield in the opening round, Phillipsburg-Osceola advanced to the winners' bracket final against Punxsy.
Punxsy erupted for eight runs over the first three innings, including a two-run first, and went on to earn an 11-8 victory.
Huey led things off with a walk, and after a single by Jones and another walk to Lance Pennington, a hit batsman to Ambler allowed one run to score.
Jones also came around and crossed home plate with the help of a fielder's choice off Perry's bat and a hit batsman to DiPietro.
In the second, Punxsy added one more on three singles — one each by Smith, Huey and Ambler.
With Pennington dealing on the mound, Punxsy continued to put up more runs, exploding for a five-run third.
Singles by Keven Hutton, Knox and Jones and free passes to Huey, Perry and DiPietro sparked the big inning.
Punxsy added one more in the fourth to push the lead to 9-0, with Knox leading things off with a one-out single.
A walk and a pair of stolen bases put Smith in scoring position, and back-to-back singles by Huey and Jones added a tally to the scoreboard.
P-O answered with a four-run fifth to make things interesting behind a clutch double by Kody Trude, and followed it up with a four-run sixth, as well.
But back-to-back RBI doubles by Jones and Pennington in the top of the seventh gave Punxsy the insurance it needed.
Unfortunately for Punxsy, P-O got the best of them in the re-match, and with both teams moving on, the rubber match was conceded.
Punxsy jumped out to a two-run lead in the first inning behind hits by Huey, Pennington and Braedon Paulinellie, but P-O exploded for 12 runs over five innings and blanked Punxsy the rest of the way to earn a 12-2, five-innnig victory.
A double by Pennington and a single by Paulinellie were the only two hits mustered by Punxsy's offense over the rest of the game.
Both teams will advance to the next level, which will begin July 27 and be hosted by Phillipsburg.


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Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:I was in a slightly off mood until I saw your Hobbit photo !!
Hahaha glad you liked it! Went to the cinema as charlottes (my girlfriends) brother works there and helps host quiz nights, they were doing a hobbit themed quiz so we dressed up :p one of the teams playing was called "2 dwarves one challice" hope you get that hahahaha
Asparagus. That's a pretty good idea man thanks, next time I get stuck at home I'll give it a try, I really need to invest in a decent set up, but its gonna set me back at least 300 quid and I'm a poor student baha


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The wave of dizziness hit with no warning. Steve Stark had just performed his sauerkraut song, moving a crowd of hundreds to laughter and applause. Exuberant, he bounded off the outdoor stage and down the steps.
"When I got to the back, I couldn't believe what was happening. I felt my knees buckle and knew I was going down," says the 62-year-old, recalling that June evening. Steve and the Fargo-based "Dakota Air: The Radio Show" troupe had traveled to Ashley, N.D. -- population 749 -- for the town's 125th anniversary celebration.
"I remember reaching my hand out, trying to hang on," he says. "Then I was out."
Fellow actor Vicki Melchior rushed over. She unfolded Steve's legs from under him. A call went out to the audience for anyone who knew CPR. Many came running.
Key steps followed: A call to 911, 10 minutes of intense CPR, the arrival of the Ashley ambulance, the use of a portable defibrillator by the Ashley EMTs.
The first jolt -- nothing. The second brought a response. In that moment, Steve became one of the few who return to life after sudden cardiac death. SCD can accompany a heart attack, but not always.
"I remember looking up and seeing all these arms and blurry faces," says Steve. "The first voice I heard was Vicki's saying, 'Steve we love you.'"
The ambulance whisked Steve to Ashley Medical Center.
"Just a small, modest facility in the middle of North Dakota, but they knew exactly what to do to stabilize me," he says. "I'll never forget the nurse who held my hand while she talked. Such a simple gesture, but so meaningful."
Steve needed higher level heart care, but evening storms presented a flight challenge.
"They could've gotten me to Aberdeen, but I wanted Sanford in Fargo," he says. "That's my hometown hospital."
The weather prevented Sanford AirMed from a Fargo departure, but help came from the west. Sanford Bismarck now provides AirMed service to central and western North Dakota.
Cori Randall, Sanford flight nurse, recalls that evening: "Our flight to Ashley was quick. When we arrived, we kept the helicopter running because we knew we needed to get Steve out as fast as possible." The trip to Fargo included close monitoring, pain medication, even conversation.
"Amazing that after all he'd been through, Steve was still able to talk during the flight," says Cori. "He told me about his family -- his two boys and his wife, Gwen. I reassured Steve I'd find them as soon as we got him safely to Sanford in Fargo."
An emergency angiogram at Sanford Heart Center showed Steve's coronary arteries were not blocked, indicating no heart attack. The angiogram also showed no problems with his triple bypass from 22 years ago.
"That was good news," says Steve. "Then came the best sight of all: My family and two dear friends waiting for me."
While recovering in the cardiac care unit, Steve learned more about his heart. Dr. Christopher Pierce, Sanford cardiac electrophysiologist, explained what happens when the electrical system to the heart malfunctions. A possible trigger in Steve's case was built-up scar tissue from his 1991 bypass surgery. Dr. Pierce recommended the implantation of a combination pacemaker/defibrillator in Steve's chest. The surgery took place that very day.
Says Dr. Pierce: "We never would have reached that stage of treatment had it not been for the rapid chain-of-care that began in Ashley. Thanks to excellent community response, Steve received immediate, on-the-scene CPR and defibrillation. That made a lifesaving difference."
Steve took one more important step. He joined Sanford's Cardiac Rehab Outpatient Program, now exercising three times a week under close supervision. "That place is terrific," he says. "Your second time there, they already know your name."
Steve is known regionally for his 20 years of editorial cartoons in the Fargo Forum and his illustrated history presentations in classrooms. He's known nationally for his portrayal of Theodore Roosevelt.
Asked what Teddy would say about today's advanced heart care, Steve doesn't hesitate: "Bully, he'd say. Bully for you!"
Speaking for himself, Steve expresses wonder and thanks for the chain-of-care that spanned the state. "I died that night, but here I am, alive and well. Why me? Why did I get so lucky? I still haven't figured it out," he says. "For all those Dakotans, known and unknown, who helped restore my life, you're my heroes and angels."
If you or your family experience a heart emergency, look to Sanford Heart and Sanford AirMed, serving Minnesota, South Dakota and now the entire state of North Dakota.
"I know from experience," says Steve. "Whether on land in the air or in the hospital, you get care, care, care."


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What is This., yo?
This. silly question has been going on for as long as blogs have been around, even though blogging has died over and over and over. All things go in circles.
Except climate change (conspiracy theories). I know, I know. Nobody believes in scientists. I mean, who do they think they are? Scientists?
Politician says politicians are corrupt. All things go in ...
I've got some invites to This.cm, which is why I've been inexplicably using 'This.' instead of 'this'. I'll give the invites out to the first people who reply within the newsletter (I need your email for it). People are 'clamoring' for them, after all, even thought I'd had these invites for a while and you'd probably never heard of it? I'd expect to have the same number of invites by the end of this experiment, because All things go ...
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